Meek young men grow up in libraries believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given; forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books. Modern English Prose - Página 354editado por - 1904 - 481 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1835 - 616 páginas
...this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking...not from their own sight of principles. Meek young mea grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which... | |
| 1838 - 536 páginas
...becomes noxious. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." " Books are good only to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction... | |
| 1844 - 638 páginas
...communication. Nothing can bo greater than it." In an oration to our scholars, he encourages them with : 'i Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." Another and still more transcendental writer, if possible, tells us in his " Sayings :" " A man is... | |
| 1844 - 648 páginas
...communication. Nothing can be greater than tí." In an oration to our scholars, he encourages them with : " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." Another and still more transcendental writer, if possible, tells us in his " Sayings :" " A man is... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1848 - 400 páginas
...this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking;...young men in libraries when they wrote these books. This is bad; this is worse than it seems. Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1849 - 414 páginas
...this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking...that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libralies, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence,... | |
| 1851 - 608 páginas
...through, And my luncheon fast cooling ¡--this never will do. In the words of a living essayist, " Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men and libraries when they wrote those books . . . The writer was ajust and wise man. Henceforward it... | |
| 1855 - 534 páginas
...than dead " men of antiquity. He is not one of those " meek young men " of whom Emerson speaks, who "grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to...young men in libraries when they wrote these books." We will detain the reader no longer, but will at once introduce him to the work before us. The author... | |
| 1894 - 284 páginas
...in some form is present. But there is a right use and a wrong use of books. Emerson says that some " meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it...young men in libraries when they wrote these books," and yet the same writer declares that " well used, books are the best of things." The average college... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 400 páginas
...this book, stands upon it, and makes an outcry, if it is disparaged. Colleges are built on it. Books are written on it by thinkers, not by Man Thinking...young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. (X1UJx^ Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the bookworm. Hence, the book-learned class, who value... | |
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